Last week I recevied a quote from VSI on 3 years supportfor what is called the "VSI OpenVMS for Alpha" product forthe three Alpha servers at my costumer site.

First, I will not disclose any prices since I have not seenany official price list from VSI and I can not tell howcostumer specific this quote is.

Together with the quote as such, there were two documentssupplied that I have not been able to locate at the VSI site:

One three page PDF "VSI OpenVMS for Alpha data Sheet". Thisis not the same as the information on the "Alpha Evaluation"page http://vmssoftware.com/alpha/. The data sheet also talkesabout a "Detailed Layered Products lists" that should be specificto this Alpha offer that I have not been able to locate yet.

One eight page PDF "VSI Software Support Portfolio". This issimilar to the PTT presentation in the VSI Support pagehttp://vmssoftware.com/services_supp.html, but with someadditional and detailed information.

I get the impression that this Alpha offer is in an kind ofbuild-up phase and that there is still things to sort out.But besides of that, it looks fine so far.

In short:

- Licenses included for all OS components (cluster, shadowingand so on) and all LPs that are included in the above metioned"Detailed Layered Products lists". I supplied lists of currentlyregistered PAKs that was accepted with a few omissings (OPEN3Dand PHIGS-RUNTIME-USER that we don't use anyway). All compilersthat we use (C, Fortran and Cobol) are there anyway.

- Free port to the coming x86-64 platform. Not clear if that alsoincludes all the OS components and LPs. But if so, this migth bea hint of the future licensing model for VMS on x86-64. And inthat case, a highly simplified model...

Post by Jan-Erik SoderholmHi.Last week I recevied a quote from VSI on 3 years supportfor what is called the "VSI OpenVMS for Alpha" product forthe three Alpha servers at my costumer site.First, I will not disclose any prices since I have not seenany official price list from VSI and I can not tell howcostumer specific this quote is.

I've been told that the quotes that have gone out so farare the standard rates.

Post by Jan-Erik Soderholm- Licenses included for all OS components (cluster, shadowingand so on) and all LPs that are included in the above metioned"Detailed Layered Products lists".

There are just two licenses for Alpha -- one for the OS andone forall the LP's.

Post by Jan-Erik SoderholmHi.Last week I recevied a quote from VSI on 3 years supportfor what is called the "VSI OpenVMS for Alpha" product forthe three Alpha servers at my costumer site.First, I will not disclose any prices since I have not seenany official price list from VSI and I can not tell howcostumer specific this quote is.

I've been told that the quotes that have gone out so farare the standard rates.

OK. I'm not going to disclose my quote anyway. The price lists(if any) has to come from VSI, in my view.

But nice to hear that I'm not alone... :-)

I'm preparing a presentation of the quote, what it consists ofand how it "works" for the costumer and we'll take it from there.

Post by Jan-Erik SoderholmHi.Last week I recevied a quote from VSI on 3 years supportfor what is called the "VSI OpenVMS for Alpha" product forthe three Alpha servers at my costumer site.First, I will not disclose any prices since I have not seenany official price list from VSI and I can not tell howcostumer specific this quote is.Together with the quote as such, there were two documentsOne three page PDF "VSI OpenVMS for Alpha data Sheet". Thisis not the same as the information on the "Alpha Evaluation"page http://vmssoftware.com/alpha/. The data sheet also talkesabout a "Detailed Layered Products lists" that should be specificto this Alpha offer that I have not been able to locate yet.One eight page PDF "VSI Software Support Portfolio". This issimilar to the PTT presentation in the VSI Support pagehttp://vmssoftware.com/services_supp.html, but with someadditional and detailed information.I get the impression that this Alpha offer is in an kind ofbuild-up phase and that there is still things to sort out.But besides of that, it looks fine so far.- Licenses included for all OS components (cluster, shadowingand so on) and all LPs that are included in the above metioned"Detailed Layered Products lists". I supplied lists of currentlyregistered PAKs that was accepted with a few omissings (OPEN3Dand PHIGS-RUNTIME-USER that we don't use anyway). All compilersthat we use (C, Fortran and Cobol) are there anyway.- Free port to the coming x86-64 platform. Not clear if that alsoincludes all the OS components and LPs. But if so, this migth bea hint of the future licensing model for VMS on x86-64. And inthat case, a highly simplified model...This Alpha offering has three price levels. 1-2 CPUs, 3-4 CPUsand > 4 CPUs.Thought it might interest someone... :-)Jan-Erik.

Post by Jan-Erik SoderholmHi.Last week I recevied a quote from VSI on 3 years supportfor what is called the "VSI OpenVMS for Alpha" product forthe three Alpha servers at my costumer site.First, I will not disclose any prices since I have not seenany official price list from VSI and I can not tell howcostumer specific this quote is.Together with the quote as such, there were two documentsOne three page PDF "VSI OpenVMS for Alpha data Sheet". Thisis not the same as the information on the "Alpha Evaluation"page http://vmssoftware.com/alpha/. The data sheet also talkesabout a "Detailed Layered Products lists" that should be specificto this Alpha offer that I have not been able to locate yet.One eight page PDF "VSI Software Support Portfolio". This issimilar to the PTT presentation in the VSI Support pagehttp://vmssoftware.com/services_supp.html, but with someadditional and detailed information.I get the impression that this Alpha offer is in an kind ofbuild-up phase and that there is still things to sort out.But besides of that, it looks fine so far.- Licenses included for all OS components (cluster, shadowingand so on) and all LPs that are included in the above metioned"Detailed Layered Products lists". I supplied lists of currentlyregistered PAKs that was accepted with a few omissings (OPEN3Dand PHIGS-RUNTIME-USER that we don't use anyway). All compilersthat we use (C, Fortran and Cobol) are there anyway.- Free port to the coming x86-64 platform. Not clear if that alsoincludes all the OS components and LPs. But if so, this migth bea hint of the future licensing model for VMS on x86-64. And inthat case, a highly simplified model...This Alpha offering has three price levels. 1-2 CPUs, 3-4 CPUsand > 4 CPUs.Thought it might interest someone... :-)Jan-Erik.

Jan-Erik,A public announcement has now appeared.See http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/01/prweb14019089.htm- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

Thanks for the pointer! We'll see the details in the VSIsite later, according to that page...